Editor’s note: Funeral service for Gov. Al Quie will be at Central Lutheran Church, 333 S. 12th St., Minneapolis, Saturday, September 9, at 1:00 pm, preceded by a visitation at the church at 11:00. Here’s an appreciation. A Jewish philosopher now lost to the ages wrote: “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Expressed […]
Seventy-five years ago this month, Hubert Humphrey proclaimed from the podium of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that “[t]he time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” In so doing, Humphrey both facilitated […]
